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Hmmm Interesting ....
How do we miss something so obvious? It’s ridiculous to watch that video the second time and realize how blatant that bear stands out, but on the first viewing we were so focused on keeping track of ball movement and colors that nothing else really mattered to our brains. This is a crucial function of the RAS because focus is a limited resource.
The reticular activating system (RAS), or extrathalamic control modulatory system, is a set of connected nuclei in the brains of vertebrates that is responsible for regulating arousal and sleep-wake transitions. As its name implies, its most influential component is the reticular formation. (Wikipedia)
Thats why we say "focus on the winning trades". Thats why we say ignore the losing trades and focus on "adding on opportunities". Focus on what you WANT and not focus on what you do not want. If you focus on "opportunities" "winning trades" and "adding on to winners" your mind will filter out information that may lead to the exact opposite of what you are focusing on.
Functions Of The Reticular Activating System
Reticular activating system senses the things around us and sorts them out. There are so many things in our daily routine which are to be considered and which are not to be considered. These are categorized by the Reticular activating system.
If something good occurs in your life that is treated as positive e.g. meeting of an old best mate whom you’ve lost contact with etc., and similarly If you’re thinking something negative in the mind or something bad happens in your life e.g. someone ditches you, then these are informed to you by the Reticular activating system to make you realize the presence of either positive or negative impact.
The best part of this part of reticular activating system is if you really concentrate on what you want to focus then you will find that everything is at your presence whatever you want is with you.
Focus and the Reticular Activating System
Every instant you are bombarded by external stimuli. There’s the background noise of the air conditioner, someone walking around upstairs, birds chirping, computer buzzing, tv flashing, cell phone bleeping and blooping every second from twitter, facebook, or whatever. Focusing on it all would drive you insane. Despite the hectic environment, we are able to forget most things and focus on what is truly important. For example, if your kid is playing outdoors, you are very likely to hear a stranger’s voice or a speeding car outside. This is because your focus is on your child’s safety and these stimuli make you question your child’s safety. Who is this strange voice I hear? Is my kid too close to the road? However, if your child was inside playing a game with you, you would probably not even notice these things happening outside.
But as long as categorization and focus is considered there are always opportunities which become passing clouds because of these. This system even works functionally and properly at sleep times. Few doctors even believe that the dreams that we get while we are asleep are because of the impact of positives and negatives over a short period of time interval it may be from few minutes to few months.
The reticular activating system can even make the larger problem seem smaller and smaller achievement even larger. If we focus on something which seems very fascinating or important to us then the smallest achievement in such a field can make us visualise as a biggest achievement similarly if a bigger problem occurs to us in the field where we don’t really concentrate on that bigger problem looks smaller. But realisations of these effects are also taken up by the reticular activating system.
You can evolve yourself once you understand about the basic reticular activating system. You can gain a huge success and empower yourself with the weapon that is embedded inside the human body but beware that constant focusing on negative things may eventually end you up being bad or causing a negative impact.
Achieving Goals and the Reticular Activating System
By focusing our attention on our goals, our RAS is able to get rid of the nonsense and focus in on those things that will help us accomplish our goals. Why is it that an artist can get inspiration from a walk in the park, a preacher can get an idea for a sermon by people watching, or the entrepreneur can look at anything and think of an improvement or new product to be created? It is because their focus that their profession demands has trained their Reticular Activating Systems to pick up on specific pieces of information. The preacher and the entrepreneur could take the same walk but have hugely different experiences.
Implications of the Reticular Activating System
What this implies is that what you focus on will show up in your life. If you have a habitual focus on achieving your goals, you will start to view your environment in a way that is conducive to your success. You will begin to see events and circumstances in a new light.
Writing down your goals is a great way to bring them into your focus.
Thanks to goalviz and reticularactivatingsystem.org and John Assaraff
Please read John's Article/eBook , Your Powerful Brain here http://www.johnassaraf.com/resources/yo ... _brain.pdf